Foreword / Chris Ireland -- 1. What is aphasia? -- 2. 'Is frightened. Is frightened': the early experience of stroke and aphasia -- 3. 'The thing is - what job?': work, leisure and aphasia -- 4. 'Can I get a word in edgeways?': family friends and aphasia -- 5. 'Lost in the undertow': health, social care and voluntary services for people with aphasia -- 6. 'Everything seems a secret': information and aphasia --7. 'Doing the inside work': the meaning of aphasia --8. 'They cannot see it so how will they know?': aphasia and disability -- 9. 'I'm fed up of saying I'm sorry': learning to live with aphasia
Summary
Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifty aphasic people, this book explores the experience of aphasia from the dramatic onset of stroke and loss of language to the gradual revelation of its long-term consequences
Notes
First published: 1997
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-144)